Unsettledness and the intentionality of practical decisions

Philosophical Explorations 25 (2):220-231 (2022)
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Say that a ‘practical decision’ is a momentary intentional mental action of intention formation. According to what I’ll call the ‘Decisional Prior Intention Thesis’, each practical decisio...

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E. J. Coffman
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